Originally Posted by
FootInMouth
Was AA using the presence of an aa.com cookie on my laptop to give me a hgher fare? There's no way of knowing, really. But this is a recurring topic in the IT industry - you almost always get a better deal on-line right after you delete all the cookies from your system. Okay, you'll have to logon to FlyerTalk again (and FB, Twitter, etc.), but perhaps a small price to pay.
Delete cookies from my system or my browser? Myi understanding is that cookies are by browser type, or at most browser type family (ie, multiple Mozilla family browser types may share cookies, but for example IE and Firefox don't share cookies).
Thus a possible less apocalyptic solution would be to download a browser of a different type than you normally use, and only delete cookies on it, but then only use it for sites where you need to delete cookies to save money. Thus your FT/FB/Twietter/etc remain unaffected.
(in my case, I'd need a trhid browser type, because I already use Firefox for most stuff but IE for a few sites, in some cases because of keeping cookies separate, in one case because one site I use for work only works with IE because it uses Microsoft Office stuff. I also have SeaMonkey, which is an obscure Mozilla browser, which makes GoGo think I'm using a mobile device and give a cheaper rate for in-flight wifi
, but I've noticed that SeaMonkey shares
some stuff with Firefox, not sure about cookies.)
Anyhow regarding aa.com, I often search while at work and book while at home or vice versa, and if I'm not logged in does it really correlate what I do on two different computers if it's by cookies?